SALLY FRENCH Snufflick from Sugar Soop series, 2006 alkyd, oil, gold leaf, and prismacolor on wood panel 48 x 72 x 3 inches Price: $8,000 Courtesy of the artist

Born in Stockton, California in 1947, Sally French was the child of two artists and was encouraged to follow her dream of being an artist and teacher. That quest led her to study art in Columbia, Missouri; Boulder, Colorado; Stockton, and San Francisco. She also studied lithography at UH-Manoa, and more recently has explored the medium of case and painted glass at Pilchuck and Penland. French has received several scholarships and awards, including NEA and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) grants as well as several purchase awards form the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. French lives in Kalaheo, Kaua‘i in a multi-generational household, from which she draws much of the material, some of it autobiographical, found in her work.

Of her work, the artist states, “My work concerns the psychic state of change, the space between motion and hesitation. It’s imbued in the panic going up the back of the neck, the electrical charges to the finger tips, that uncomfortable place . . . charged but familiar, where imbalance forces the old to roll into the new.”